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December 20, 2012, Thursday

Since winning an Academy Award six years ago for ''Jerry Maguire,'' Cuba Gooding Jr. has spread himself dangerously thin in a succession of often junky movies. But the encouraging news about his role in the inspirational drama ''Radio'' is that he...

October 24, 2003, Friday

As a young boy in 1980, Darrin Hill sees his mother kicked out of the church choir in her Georgia hometown for singing sexy, sinful R&B music, after which she takes to the road, dragging her son through a nomadic childhood of nightclubs and concert...

September 19, 2003, Friday

Directed by Mort Nathan R, 95 minutes Whom do you feel sorrier for, the cast of ''Boat Trip'' or their children? Remember, kids can be very cruel -- and this latest ''get Cuba Gooding Jr. career counseling fast'' project is a misfire from...

March 21, 2003, Friday

Maybe the funniest moment in ''Rat Race'' comes when Gloria Allred -- that's right, Gloria Allred the lawyer -- turns up in a cameo to help a potential client file a lawsuit. She freezes in front of the camera, immobilized as if just stunned by a...

The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II has inspired a splendid movie, full of vivid performances and unforgettable scenes, a movie that uses the coming of war as a backdrop for individual stories of...

BACK in the days of ''Rambo,'' American popular culture tended to categorize men as either muscle-bound warriors or wimps, and in the court of public opinion the wimps, with their supposed sensitivity to women's issues, held a slender edge. But as...

''Men of Honor'' is decidedly manly and for the most part honorable. Like ''Remember the Titans,'' whose box-office success it will probably duplicate, this film tells a story of racial reconciliation against a backdrop of square-jawed masculine...

November 10, 2000, Friday

Big thespian guns are rolled out to lay down a barrage of philosophical popcorn in the psychological mystery ''Instinct.'' The big guns are the Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr. The philosophical popcorn runs along these...